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Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of
socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly
visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual
art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning,
pedagogy, and ecology. Part I of the book introduces the reader to
the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning
the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a
visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present,
offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout
history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of
the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners
and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and,
in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world
to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes
in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding
to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much
needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the
conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes
commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and
theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights
into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and
broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture. Of
interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and
scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another
World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and
individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of
socially engaged art.
Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of
socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly
visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual
art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning,
pedagogy, and ecology. Part I of the book introduces the reader to
the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning
the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a
visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present,
offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout
history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of
the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners
and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and,
in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world
to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes
in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding
to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much
needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the
conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes
commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and
theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights
into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and
broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture. Of
interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and
scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another
World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and
individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of
socially engaged art.
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What about Activism? (Paperback)
Steven Henry Madoff, Carolyn Christov-bakarg, Joshua Decter, Mick Wilson, Nato Thompson
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R616
Discovery Miles 6 160
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The most comprehensive monograph on the enigmatic French street artist – now updated to include brand-new work
Filled with stunning photography, this extraordinary monograph charts JR’s widereaching trajectory and a range of collaborative projects executed across the globe. Created in close collaboration with the artist, it features chapters on each of JR’s major bodies of work – from ‘Expo2Rue,’ which launched his career as a street artist, to ‘The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America’ published in Time magazine in 2018. A specially commissioned graphic novel by comic artist Joseph Remnant and a survey essay by Nato Thompson tell JR’s fascinating story.
A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first
global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of
cultural production. Over the past twenty years, an abundance of
art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social
dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out
of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and
action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism
to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the
texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art
and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex
and exciting mode of cultural production-one that has virtually
redefined contemporary art practice. Living as Form grew out of a
major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the
exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects
selected by a thirty-person curatorial advisory team; each project
is documented by a selection of color images. The artists include
the Danish collective Superflex, who empower communities to
challenge corporate interest; Turner Prize nominee Jeremy Deller,
creator of socially and politically charged performance works;
Women on Waves, who provide abortion services and information to
women in regions where the procedure is illegal; and Santiago
Cirugeda, an architect who builds temporary structures to solve
housing problems. Living as Form contains commissioned essays from
noted critics and theorists who look at this phenomenon from a
global perspective and broaden the range of what constitutes this
form. Contributing authors Claire Bishop, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz,
Brian Holmes, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Anne Pasternak, Nato
Thompson
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OVEREXPOSED (Paperback)
Paolo Cirio, Bruce Sterling, Nato Thompson
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R508
Discovery Miles 5 080
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OVEREXPOSED is composed of a series of nine unauthorized photos of
high-ranking U.S. intelligence officials of the NSA, CIA, NI, and
FBI who were related to Edward Snowden's revelations. The
appropriated material was found by monitoring photos and selfies
published on Internet public platforms without the control of the
officials. The images were reproduced with the street art HD
Stencils technique, and they were disseminated onto public walls
throughout major cities. The artwork satirizes the era of
ubiquitous surveillance and overly-mediated political personas by
exposing the officials accountable for secretive mass surveillance
and over-classified intelligence programs. New modes of
circulation, appropriation, contextualization, and technical
reproduction of images are integrated into this artwork.
Contemporary artists investigate the boundaries between animal and
human in a world of transgenics and dissolving distinctions; with
65 color images of new works. In an age when scientists say they
can no longer specify the exact difference between human and
animal, living and dead, many contemporary artists have chosen to
use animals in their work-as the ultimate "other," as metaphor, as
reflection. The attempt to discover what is animal, not
surprisingly, leads to a greater understanding of what it means to
be human. In Becoming Animal, 12 internationally known artists
investigate the shifting boundaries between animal and human. Their
explorations may be a barometer of things to come. The works
included in Becoming Animal-which accompanies an exhibit at MASS
MoCA-range from the aviary and cabinet of curiosities of Mark Dion
to the gun-toting bird collages of Michael Oatman. Nicolas
Lampert's machine-animal collages and Jane Alexander's corpse-like
humanoids suggest a new landscape of alienation. Rachel Berwick's
investigation of the last Galapagos tortoise from the island of
Pinto and Brian Conley's humanized mating call of the Tungara frog
question the divide between human and animal communication.
Patricia Piccinini imagines a bodyguard for a bird on the edge of
extinction and Ann-Sofi Siden recreates the bedroom-and paranoia-of
psychologist Alice Fabian. Natalie Jeremijenko presents another
installment in her ongoing Ooz, reverse-engineering the zoo, and
Kathy High's installation of "trans-animals" remembers lab rats who
have given their lives for science. Sam Easterson's videos allow us
to see from the viewpoint of an aardvark, a tarantula, a
tumbleweed; Motohiko Odani's films show a surrealistic genetically
modified bestiary. Becoming Animal documents these works with
eye-popping full-color images, taking us on a visual journey
through an unknown world.
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